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The report began by describing the history of the problem, including a detailed summary of the origins of the Balfour Declaration. Much of this summary relied on Lloyd-George's personal testimony; [324] Balfour had died in 1930 and Sykes in 1919. [325] He told the commission that the declaration was made "due to propagandist reasons ...
The declaration accepted the growing political and diplomatic independence of the Dominions in the years after World War I. It also recommended that the governors-general , the representatives of the King in each dominion, should no longer also serve automatically as the representative of the British government in diplomatic relations between ...
This is a timeline of the Commonwealth of Nations from the Balfour Declaration of 1926. Some regard the Balfour Declaration as the foundation of the modern Commonwealth. 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s – 2020s 1920s (from 1926) Year Date Event 1926 25 October The Balfour Declaration of 1926 establishes the principle of the ...
Benjamin Harrison [1] Freedman (October 4, 1890 – May 1984) [2] was an American businessman, Holocaust denier, [3] [4] [5] and vocal anti-Zionist. [6] [7] Born in a Jewish family, he converted from Judaism to Roman Catholicism. [8] Outside of political activism, Freedman was a partner in a dermatological institute and investor for small ...
This is a timeline of declarations of war during World War II. A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another. The declaration is usually the act of delivering a performative speech or the presentation of a signed document by an authorized party of a national government in order to create a state of war ...
The post by activist group Palestine Action said: “Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.”
The declaration called for safeguarding the civil and religious rights for the Palestinian Arabs, who composed the vast majority of the local population, and the rights of Jewish communities in any other country. [14] The Balfour Declaration was subsequently incorporated into the Mandate for Palestine to put the declaration into effect. [15]
The High Walls of Jerusalem, A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate in Palestine, Ronald Sanders, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1983 New York; Mason, Alpheus T., Brandeis, A Free Man's Life, (New York: Viking Press, 1956) The Politics of Christian Zionism, 1891–1948, Paul C. Merkley, Frank Cass Press, London, 1998